ServiceNow Will Test IPO Market

By

Anupreeta Das And

Telis Demos

Updated June 18, 2012 6:24 p.m. ET

Business-software company ServiceNow Inc. plans this week to start pitching shares to large investors ahead of an initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said, in one of the first signs of life for U.S. IPOs since Facebook Inc. went public in a botched offering a month ago.

ServiceNow executives plan to start meeting with investment-banking sales staff and investors as soon as Tuesday, and the company is expected to price its shares in late June, said the people. Shares would begin trading after that. The...